Paper-roll for manifolding sales-pads.



Patented Feb. 6, I900.

H. w. MATHER. PAPER BULL FUR MANIFOLDING SALES PADS.

A plication filed May 22, 1899.)

(No Model) '//////l Ill NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY WV. MATI-IER, OF ROSEVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

PAPER-ROLL FOR MANIFOLDING SALES-PADS.

SPECIFICATTON forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,799, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed May 22, 1899. Serial No. 717,679. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY W. MATHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Roseville, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Rolls for Sales-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to paper-rolls for sales-pads wherein the roll comprises a plurality of record-strips-of equal width superposed and rolled up together,each record-strip being composed of individual sales-checks marked or numbered consecutively. In this class of devices it has been found difficult to employ a single roll of superposed recordstrips of uniform widths, for the reason that in rolling them up the strips will not maintain their register, so that the sales-check of one strip will register with the correspondinglynumbered check on the other strips. To overcome this difficulty, various means have been devised whereby similarly-printed record-' strips perforated between the sales-checks could be brought to register; but, so far as I am aware, none of these have proved satisfactory. The present invention overcomes this difficulty in a simple manner and provides also record-strips of difierent-colored paper for the different departments of the store to which the sales-checks are to be distributed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the paper-roll, and Fig. 2 shows the same partly unrolled. Fig. 3 is an illustrative view showing how the auxiliary colored record-strips are marked to correspond with the main strip. This View represents the strips displaced in a manner to show parts of auxiliary strips below the main strip. I

P represents the paper-roll ready for use. This roll consists of a main record-strip A, divided or partitioned by suitable transverse markings into sales-checks a, (designated successively by consecutive characters and numbers, one or both, as D D D 8:0.) Usually these sales-checks will be printed to form a convenient blank suitable for being filled up by the salesman, and the line of division may be at y in Fig. 1.

Theauxiliary record strips B and C will be, by preference, of colored paper-B being red, for example, and 0 being blue. They may be, of course, of any desired colors or tints or quality of paper, and any number of them may be used, although only two are shown; but whatever may be the number of these auxiliary strips used they will all be of different colors.

its of the sales-checks, such as are seen on the strip A, and no transverse lines of per forations or indentations to fix such limits, as

it is not material with my roll that the saleschecks of the auxiliary strips shall have definite end limits; but each of the sales-checks of the colored auxiliary checks willbe marked with the same characters or numbers as the sales-check corresponding to it on the strip A, as D D D &c. The marks on these colored strips (seen at b in Fig. 3) may be so spaced as to fall about the middle of the sales-check, so that the taking up of the strips in rolling them up will not shift said marks oh? from that portion of the auxiliary strip which goes to form the sales-check bearing that number. This construction and arrangement obviate the necessity of a special arrangement and registration of the superposed 8o strips in rolling them up and the necessity of friction devices for keeping the lines of severance of the several superposed strips in accurate register. Suppose, for example, that the record-strip is three and one-half inches check a the markings b will always appear at some point on the sales-checks severed from the colored auxiliary record-strips.

The sales-checks will be cut or severed from the record-strips without the aid of perforations or weakened transverse lines, and-the I00 checks of the different colors will go to the difierent departments in the store to which they severally belong. The letter, as D, may indicate the sales-department, and the They will not have any 60 transverse markings indicating the end lim- It follows that if the mark- 0 number identifies the check, with its multiples. The numerals and marks, as D 16, on all the auxiliary strips register with some part of the sales-check of the main innerstrip of the roll which bears the same numeral and letter.

I have spoken of the main strip A as the inner strip on the roll, for the reason that it is customary to place it on the inside, as shown in the drawings; but obviously the strips may as well be rolled so as to place this strip A on the outside, and the Word in- V ner, as applied to said strip herein, is only used in a descriptive sense and not as limiting me to this. In the same way also I have referred to the markings b on the auxiliary strips as corresponding to the markings on the main strip, and they Will ordinarily correspond in all respects; but it is only essential that the strips shall have corresponding identifying marks or numbers. If numbers are used to identify, these numbers will correspond. If letters are used, theletters will correspond.

It may be proper to state that these paperrolls are designed for use in connection with interleaved carbon-sheets in a casing or box of a known kind to be drawn out over a pad usually called a sales-pad. Ordinarily the strips A, B, and C will be of substantially equal width; but it may be desirable in some cases to make one or more of the auxiliary strips of lesser width than the main strip for the convenience of the user of the roll.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A paper-roll for sales-pads, composed of a plurality of superposed,rolled,record-strips, comprising a main record-strip A, divided by transverse markings into sales-checks Ct, said checks being numbered and marked consecutively as described, and one or more unperforated, auxiliary record-strips, each of such auxiliarystrips having printed on it consecutive numbers corresponding to those on the main strip A, said numbers on the auxiliary record-strip being spaced to correspond to the length of the sales-checks a and each situated, before rolling, so far below the inner end of the sales-check that the maximum amount of the strip taken up by creeping in forming the roll from the strips,will not shift said numbers off from that portion of the strip which goes to form the sales-check designed to bear that number, substantially as set forth.

2. A paper-roll for sales-pads, composed of a plurality of superposed,rolled,record-strips, comprising a main record-strip A, divided by transverse markings into sales-checks a, said checks being numbered and marked consecutively as described, and unperforated, auxiliary record-strips, B and G,of differentcolors, each of such colored strips having printed 011 it consecutive numbers corresponding to the numbers on the strip A and separated by spaces equal to the length of the sales-checks a, said numbers on the auxiliarystrips being situated, before rolling, so far below the inner ends of the respective sales-checks that the maximum amount of the strips taken up bycreeping in forming the roll from the same, will not shift said numbers off from those portions of the strips which go to form the sales-checks designed to bear those numbers, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 20th day of May, 1899, in the presence of'two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. MATHER.

Witnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, PETER A. Ross. 

